Running kernel-2.6.9-1.11_FC2 is insanely slow

[Dave Jones]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 04:31:01PM -0500, Christopher Calzonetti wrote:
 > Further to this.
 > 
 > I did an update to Fedora Core 3, hoping that it was specific to the one 
 > kernel.  With no noticeable improvement.
 > 
 > Just so people have a better picture here, the boot time, to get to the 
 > actual login prompt of the GDM, under 2.6.9-1.6_FC2 from the grub 
 > selection screen is roughly 70 seconds.
 > 
 > The time to get from the grub selection screen to the "Hit 'I' for 
 > interactive startup" message at the start of the boot under the newer 
 > kernels is 50 seconds!  Everything else is similarly affected.
 > 
 > If anyone has ANY ideas, please let me know.

Remove the 'quiet' from the grub command line. This will make it
spew all teh kernel msgs on boot. You should then notice it hang
at some point.

My current bet is on the IDE stuff, which takes a while to
time out probing on some systems for some reason.

		Dave